Submitted by Sachin J. Kulkarni, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Turbo Integrator processes, when executed interactively, lets users know whether the process completed successfully or not. For those TI processes that are executed through chore, the outcome of the process execution (success and/or failure) is determined by looking at the target cube or sifting through the log files. Processes that are critical to end users often warrant an e-mail to support team, should the process in question were to fail.
This article stems... [Continue Reading]

Submitted by Namrata Gade, Garima Bhatia and Mangesh Gade of TaTa Consulting Services
This document presents a solution for automated archival of Cognos TM1 data servers and files (version 9.5.2).
The procedure outlined in the document has been tested on Window XP SP2 and 7zip.
The Challenge
We faced a situation where the large number of TM1 applications that were used by the client on a daily basis had to be archived from the TM1 front end.
Traditionally IT or the infrastructure team would manually take the backup by copying and... [Continue Reading]

The following example is a demo from the IBM Cognos TM1: Create Scorecards (v10.2) one-day instructor-led course. This course teaches scorecard developers how to create scorecarding solutions in TM1.
Participants learn how to create all of the necessary scorecarding objects such as metrics cubes, diagrams, and maps, deploy the solution to the Web for end-user consumption, and create an engaging dashboard presentation for the solution. If you would like to know more about this training course or other... [Continue Reading]

By Deb McKay, Technical Course Developer, IBM Business Analytics - Cognos Software Dimensional expressions can offer a way to navigate your data in a powerful manner, and extract information about your organization. For example, do you know how many levels exist in your staff organization? Could this information be useful when discussing a re-org? You can use your Staff hierarchy in a dimensional expression to determine this. How many levels are in your Products hierarchy? The value will determine how many levels of detail users will have to... [Continue Reading]

The IBM Cognos Visualization Customizer brings a new level of flexibility to the visualizations available through IBM Business Analytics offerings.
This no-charge, ‘as is’ tool provides an accessible user experience to edit and customize the JSON description of IBM Rapidly Adaptive Visualization Engine (RAVE) based visualizations.
A spectrum of changes can be made to visualizations ranging from customizing visualization color palettes, to fonts and labels to adding or changing chart icons.
Questions... [Continue Reading]

IBM Cognos TM1 is an enterprise planning software platform that can transform your entire planning cycle, from target setting and budgeting to reporting, scorecarding, analysis and forecasting.
The following example is a workshop from the IBM Cognos TM1: Analyze and Share Data (v10.2) three-day instructor-led course available in a classroom or online environment. This course is designed to teach analysts how to use TM1 to analyze data to discover trends and exceptions, create and customize reports and templates, and contribute to plans.... [Continue Reading]

By Vanam Rajesh Kumar, Cognizant Technology Solutions An Auto-complete text box prompt predicts the word that the user
wants to type in without the user actually typing it in completely. The
following technique using JavaScript achieves the exact functionality of
auto complete text box. The JavaScript that provides the auto complete
functionality is from the Auto-complete Control . The
main advantages of this feature are that users don’t have to remember
full word while entering value in text box prompt and this can be used
as... [Continue Reading]

IBM Cognos TM1 is an enterprise planning software platform that can transform your entire planning cycle, from target setting and budgeting to reporting, scorecarding, analysis and forecasting.
The following example is an adapted exercise from the IBM Cognos TM1: Create Scorecards (v10.2) one-day instructor led training course. This offering will teach scorecard developers how to create scorecarding solutions in TM1. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will learn how to create all of... [Continue Reading]

As the gap between ad-hoc query and analysis is closing, users are more and more confused by the multiple studios available to them; jumping between different studios is time consuming and inefficient, interface designs differ dramatically requiring double learning. To resolve these issues, Cognos Workspace Advanced was created to address both of these activities, and more, in a user experience. As Cognos Workspace Advanced matures, the necessity to maintain three studios is being readily diminished. By focusing our resources on a single... [Continue Reading]

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